The world's food production faces an unprecedented crisis as rising temperatures begin to alter crop yields across the globe. Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as ...
Climate-induced warming is jeopardizing the global food supply even as farmers take adaptive measures to stymie these effects, scientists are warning. In contrast with previous research suggesting ...
In the shorter term, by 2050 the authors estimate climate change will reduce global crop yields by eight percent – regardless of how much emissions increase or decrease in the coming decades.
Our World in Data (OWID) ran a series of articles by Hannah Ritchie exploring the impact of climate change on crop production. On balance, the stories get the facts straight, pointing out yields of ...
A new United Nations dataset warns that climate change will significantly erode agricultural productivity by the end of the century, posing severe risks to global food security and disproportionately ...
Climate change is on track to reduce by 11 percent in 2100 the yields that today provide two-thirds of humanity's calories from crops, even taking into account adaptation to a warming world, ...
Farmers in many regions are already experiencing longer dry spells, unseasonable heatwaves and erratic weather due to climate change - Copyright AFP/File STR Farmers ...